Leadership Lessons from the Game of Golf: An 18-Hole Course in Leadership

Hole #17Set PrioritiesPar 4 • 440 Yards

Goals and priorities change with the times, more or less along a sliding scale. A priority goal that is reached becomes the expected level of performance in the future. This allows us to stretch and meet greater and greater challenges. However, you can’t always depend on this level of performance to be maintained; what seemed so easy to accomplish one day may become elusive or extremely difficult to repeat the next. Reaching the green in the regulation number of strokes to par the hole might be effortless one afternoon and a major accomplishment the next. When we reach the tee, most of us just want to par ...